South Sudanese Primary School Textbooks: Transforming and Reinforcing Conflict

Autor/inn/en	Vanner, Catherine; Kovinthan Levi, Thursica; Akseer, Spogmai
Titel	South Sudanese Primary School Textbooks: Transforming and Reinforcing Conflict
Quelle	In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 48 (2020) 3-4, S.193-213 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Vanner, Catherine) ORCID (Kovinthan Levi, Thursica)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-1538
DOI	10.1007/s11125-019-09452-2
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Elementary School Students; Grade 4; Textbook Content; Social Studies; English; Christianity; Religious Education; Role of Education; Conflict; Social Change; Social Behavior; Behavior Standards; Social Differences; Religion; Ethnicity; Governance; Sex; Sudan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Lehrbuchtext; Gemeinschaftskunde; English language; Englisch; Christentum; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Bildungsauftrag; Konflikt; Sozialer Wandel; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Sozialer Unterschied; Ethnizität; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Geschlecht; Geschlechtsverkehr
Abstract	Primary school textbooks can provide space for learning about peace and inclusion but can also reinforce messages of inequality and division. This article describes a thematic analysis of South Sudan's textbooks for pupils in Grade 4 Social Studies, English, and Christian Religious Education. The analysis uses a conceptual framework that positions education as having multiple potential overlapping roles in relation to conflict--victim, accomplice, and transformer--to show that the textbooks' content contains some motions toward social change, but more often passively reinforces the status quo. While peace and social acceptance of diversity and gender equality are sometimes explicitly promoted, there is an overarching emphasis on maintaining and accepting social norms without critically interrogating the social structures that can foster inequality and lead to conflict. This analysis positions the textbooks primarily as accomplices to conflict, with some movement toward transformation, across the themes of religion and ethnicity, governance, gender, and conflict. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01